A majority of North Carolinians won't survive the coming year.

McCrory on staff wage hikes: "I’m trying to make it at least where they can afford to live."

By his standards, 121k is not a livable income. The logic is irrefutable. The peonage is going to die.

So long folks.


http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/01/10/3778968/gov-pat-mccrory-gives-his-cabinet.html

RALEIGH Gov. Pat McCrory gave his cabinet secretaries pay hikes as large as $13,200, far more than anything afforded to typical state employees in recent years.

The Republican’s cabinet makes a combined $1.1 million – an 8 percent increase from his Democratic predecessor.

“I’m trying to make it at least where they can afford to live while running multibillion-dollar departments,” McCrory said in an interview.

GOP lawmakers changed state law last year to give the governor the power to determine cabinet salaries, a change from the previous year when all eight secretaries made $121,807, as set in state law. The additional money will come from other areas in the agency budgets.

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